Yay JZ!!
Lou Barlow is another good example of the indie aesthetic. Hmmm, I might have to do an LJ write up of Why I Love Indie Rawk as it is a topic near and dear to my heart.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Glamcookie - Apr 16, 2008 4:17:58 pm PDT #7599 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
DavidS - Apr 16, 2008 4:20:37 pm PDT #7600 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
True that, but I was making kind of the opposite point about Kim Deal. She is messy, totally not glamorous, but she is the real deal (ha!) in terms of talent and the cool factor. The stuff that should matter is what usually does matter in indie music, which is one reason I love it.
Hmmm, I might have to do an LJ write up of Why I Love Indie Rawk as it is a topic near and dear to my heart.
Hell yeah, you do.
tommyrot - Apr 16, 2008 4:23:08 pm PDT #7601 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone heard of the Crystal Stilts? They sound like a bunch of different '80s bands (Joy division, REM, Echo and the Bunnymen), but in a good way! eMusic has an exclusive album by them: [link]
eMusic also said this:
After the first-ever Crystal Stilts show in December 2003, Hamish Kilgour of New Zealand band the Clean approached them and said: "You guys were fantastic, the most interesting of the night — it reminded me of when I went to England in '83 and bought the first Jesus & Mary Chain single." Could there possibly be a better start to a career? As Stilts bassist Andy Adler announced, after sharing the anecdote when we met the band, "it's all downhill from there."
DavidS - Apr 16, 2008 4:34:00 pm PDT #7602 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awww, look how cute Grant McLennen was.
Jon B. - Apr 16, 2008 4:45:30 pm PDT #7603 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Steve Berlin on how he and the rest of Los Lobos were completely fucked over by Paul Simon: [link]
Atropa - Apr 16, 2008 5:24:09 pm PDT #7604 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
YAY JZ!
Weren't there any options that didn't include regrettable sexism? Maybe you should've been an indie-pop girl.
Eh, the bits I saw of the local indie-pop scene were just as bad in terms of regrettable sexism as the grunge scene.
P.M. Marc - Apr 16, 2008 5:53:42 pm PDT #7605 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Eh, the bits I saw of the local indie-pop scene were just as bad in terms of regrettable sexism as the grunge scene.
They were kinda hopelessly intertwined, after all.
(And anyhow, I think Jilli was well on her way to escaping the clutches of the music scene, if she hadn't already, by the time Sleater-Kinney came around.)
Atropa - Apr 16, 2008 5:57:40 pm PDT #7606 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
(And anyhow, I think Jilli was well on her way to escaping the clutches of the music scene, if she hadn't already, by the time Sleater-Kinney came around.)
Heh. There is that.
Laga - Apr 16, 2008 6:36:47 pm PDT #7607 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
but Kim Deal is still God.
JZ - Apr 16, 2008 6:40:40 pm PDT #7608 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks for the congratulations... I'm breathing again for the first time in four weeks.
Since I have big fannish love for both Los Lobos and Paul Simon and literally cannot imagine any major event of the first quarter century of my life without, well, every damn thing Simon ever wrote as the soundtrack, I'm going to have to wilfully ignore the very existence of that article lest I die of sadness.